WHERE DO FILIPINO NURSES GO FROM HERE?
BOARD OF NURSING MEMBER SAYS: 100,000 RP nurses unemployed
“A member of the Board of Nursing on Monday belied news reports that the number of unemployed Filipino nurses was more than 400,000, and that number was more likely between 80,000 and 100,000.”
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Where do we go from here? Ayan, let us go for highly commercialized courses! The Philippines is getting crowded with nurses who are too stubborn to be employed here.
Go and figure this out: after studying this more than half-a-million nursing course for 4 to 5 years, they only get paid with the average P10,000-12,000 per month during their employment here in the Philippines. Nurses here in the Philippines has a very bleak future indeed. But do all of these nurses really expect to get employed abroad? Keep dreaming. The demand for nurses abroad has diminished through the years. What many thought would be an easy money for the future is turning into a very wrong investment after all.
We do have 4 registered nurses in our family, and another will take up the November board exams. One has landed a job in the Middle East, and the others are expecting to leave too as soon as they’re done with the board exams, IELTS, NCLEX and the what-have-you’s in this seemingly complicated and very expensive soon to be profession. And don’t forget the fact that they will leave their family behind, yes, they will be thousands of miles away from their families, nursing strangers and hoping to get ‘that’ money… P50,000-100,000.
All this crab mentality crap really just gets through my skin. Grggh. But can you blame them? No. But you can do one thing, try to talk them out of taking up these all-too-commercialized college courses and most especially, in leaving our country. When will this modern day slavery of sorts stop?
The “bagong bayani” is but a propaganda, one that has been too romanticized, so that these filthy politicians and others who gain from it will have a continuous flow of money in this country. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has not stopped selling out our Filipino brothers and sisters abroad, but has yet to think of a plan to keep them in the country, and have them employed.
Bagong bayani… Pero paano naman ang mga tao pinipiling manatili dito sa bansa para makatulong kahit papaano para sa pag-unlad nito? Alam ko, mahirap idepensa ang pananatili sa bansa, lalo pa’t mahirap mabuhay rito at usong-uso na ang paramihan ng appliances at mga alahas sa mga kabahayan.
The continued exodus of Filipinos is a reflection of a society who is slowly disowning its own culture, for a better life mainly defined by financial liquidity.
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One more thing… Call centers. Will you please, please, take out this phrase in your employment ads: “At least high school graduate.”
Kasi pag nalugi at ‘di na uso ang ‘business process outsourcing’ at kung anu-ano pang outsourcing businesses in ten years or less, mabubulok ang Pilipinas ng napakaraming highschool graduates. Pwede ba po yung pakiusap ko? Huwag nating hayaang mabobo na ng tuluyan ang Pilipinas dahil sa panandaliang sayang dala ng malaking sweldo ng mga call centers. Dammit.
